Technology

Studies of the electron’s shape are now so sensitive that if an electron were the size of Earth, they could detect a bump on the North Pole the height of… Read more »

This beautiful JWST image of Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 has been called a “prelude to a supernova” by NASA. That might be entirely wrong. Among the hottest, most heavily-ionized stars… Read more »

All of our “theories of everything” are probably wrong. Here’s why. Do you dream of an ultimate “theory of everything” that describes the entire Universe with a single equation? Your… Read more »

Before going supernova, the biggest stars in the universe may evolve into a rare Wolf-Rayet star, creating strong stellar winds, majestic nebulae, and the building blocks for new stars. BY ROBERT… Read more »

“Imagination is more important than knowledge” is often taken to mean that your conceptions outweigh what’s real. That’s not what he said. KEY TAKEAWAYS Although many Einstein quotes that appear… Read more »

20 Mar 2023 Surface code: illustration of how error correction works for bit and phase flips. The measure qubits on light blue backgrounds check for phase flip errors while the… Read more »

A neutron star made of collapsed atoms is the densest form of observable matter in the Universe, gravity on its surface is 200 billion times stronger than that of Earth… Read more »

Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that? KEY TAKEAWAYS With more than 8 billion humans… Read more »

  by RIKEN Particle identification plot of ions implanted in AIDA. The black contour highlights the isotopes with Pn measured for the first time in this Letter. The heaviest isotope reported in… Read more »

Editorial TeamMarch 08, 2023 Quantum computing promises to deliver processing power that surpasses current supercomputers. So far, however, they have only managed a few specialised computations. London-based start-up Quantum Motion, has… Read more »